LOS ANGELES – Carson Hom’s family has run a fortune cookie and almond cookie company in Los Angeles County for 35 years.For much of that time, the business required two languages: Cantonese, to ...
Laura Ng had a dual motive for taking Cantonese classes at Stanford. As a PhD student in anthropology, she was researching the history of the Inland Empire Chinatowns. She also wanted to communicate ...
NEW YORK — Cantonese, a Chinese dialect that has dominated the Chinatowns of North America for decades, is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin, the national language of China and the lingua franca ...
The announcement is symbolically significant – Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong province, home to most speakers of the ...
The Chinese or Lunar New Year is a holiday that roughly a fifth of the world celebrates and for those 1.5 billion, it’s the most important date on the calendar. But the 6 billion rest of us can get in ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn't hard. But today in the city that's drawn Cantonese speakers from South China for over 150 years ...
When Joe Wong was looking for a kindergarten in Hong Kong for his toddler son, he was shocked to find that many boasted that they taught in English and Mandarin only—a phenomenon he found odd in a ...
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